Why does my baby bass get exited when I wallk close

[JosephManning]

My baby pet large mouth bass swims fast towards the glass and opens and closes his mouth very big, when I walk up to the tank.

Does anybody know why he does this?

[JosephManning]

My Baby pet bluegill will do this too

[Hammer 4]

The fish thinks it's time to get fed..My Oscars did this all the time.

[JosephManning]

Cool, thanks

[Dirtyeggroll]

He’s yelling, “LET ME OUT!”

[slonezp]

Maybe he thinks your cute

[Bassin' Brad]

Definitely blowing you kisses. 

[Kdizzle]

I thought this was gonna be a thread about the color baby bass never getting bit, and then I was gonna agree that yeah that color sucks lol.  Then I was sad that it was about pet bass, but still wanted to share my opinion about that stupid bait color. 

[NittyGrittyBoy]

Imagine if you were surrounded by glass..

[JosephManning]

does anyone also know if he is yawning, before I turn the lights off my bass will go to the bottom of the tank and sometimes I will see Him "Yawn"

[slonezp]

3 minutes ago, JosephManning said:

does anyone also know if he is yawning, before I turn the lights off my bass will go to the bottom of the tank and sometimes I will see Him "Yawn"

Maybe you bore him. Put the TV on. Maybe he'd like to watch Matlock.

[Dirtyeggroll]

53 minutes ago, Kdizzle said:

I thought this was gonna be a thread about the color baby bass never getting bit, and then I was gonna agree that yeah that color sucks lol.  Then I was sad that it was about pet bass, but still wanted to share my opinion about that stupid bait color. 

Seems to work well for me...

[WRB]

Feed your baby bass the baby bluegill for excitement.

Tom

[Kdizzle]

10 minutes ago, Dirtyeggroll said:

Seems to work well for me...

Shut your face.

[Hammer 4]

Caught many bass on baby bass flukes..

[NittyGrittyBoy]

Baby bass flukes and rogues killa for me

[schplurg]

The fish sees a huge monster walking towards it that is going to eat him. My guess.

[NittyGrittyBoy]

Stole that from Harold on another topic. But yeah dont throw bass color baits, they dont work..

[txchaser]

One of my favorite fishign memories is when my dad connected with about a 12" bass, and he was toying with it on the way back in. A much larger bass decided it was lunchtime and hit it three or four times trying to get the little one in its mouth. I think line tension was keeping it from eating it headfirst enough to get them both. 

 

Totally unexpected and all played out in crystal clear water so it was a blast to watch.

 

After pulling a 3 foot snake out of a 3lb bass, I'm convinced that if they are hungry they'll stuff anything in there that might fit. 

[5/0]

23 hours ago, txchaser said:

One of my favorite fishign memories is when my dad connected with about a 12" bass, and he was toying with it on the way back in. A much larger bass decided it was lunchtime and hit it three or four times trying to get the little one in its mouth. I think line tension was keeping it from eating it headfirst enough to get them both. 

 

Totally unexpected and all played out in crystal clear water so it was a blast to watch.

 

After pulling a 3 foot snake out of a 3lb bass, I'm convinced that if they are hungry they'll stuff anything in there that might fit. 

We had a very small pond on our deer club years ago. The owner put several small one pound bass in it. Over the years they decimated the frogs, salamanders, and any small prey associated with it. Needless to say, after a while they had eyes on each other! I walked by one day and saw one swimming by and it had a tail sticking out of it’s mouth, it had eaten on of his pond mates of practically the same size!

[Bass Junke]

On 1/10/2020 at 6:54 PM, Hammer 4 said:

The fish thinks it's time to get fed..My Oscars did this all the time.

My Oscar knew when it was time to eat also. He would eat right out of my hand.

[galyonj]

40 minutes ago, Bass Junke said:

My Oscar knew when it was time to eat also. He would eat right out of my hand.

My snakes do this, too. Anytime anybody walks to their enclosures, they peep their little heads out. If there's a rat, they eat; if there's a spray of water, they duck back in all indignant; and if there's a hand, they get to go explore*.

 

* If the hand smells like a rat, things get interesting.

[TnRiver46]

On 1/10/2020 at 9:01 PM, slonezp said:

Maybe you bore him. Put the TV on. Maybe he'd like to watch Matlock.

Everyone loves a good "whodunnit"

[galyonj]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Everyone loves a good "whodunnit"

It's a baby. Let it watch Sesame Street.

[Paul Roberts]

On 1/10/2020 at 4:40 PM, JosephManning said:

My baby pet large mouth bass swims fast towards the glass and opens and closes his mouth very big, when I walk up to the tank.

Does anybody know why he does this?

Hi, Joseph.

I see fish yawning quite often in my underwater videos. 

From what I've read, and what I believe I'm seeing, bass yawn for a number of reasons:

-They are known to do this under oxygen stress, to accelerate water over the gills. So... apparently they actually do yawn for oxygen, like other animals.

-They've been observed yawning when becoming active, say, to feed. This increasing level of arousal may require a surge of oxygen?

-I think, it looks like, fish will yawn simply to stretch those muscles. It sure looks that way.

-Bass yawn during spawning, a sign of arousal/aggression it appears. They will signal to other bass to stay away by opening the mouth -not a full yawn though- and by making biting gestures. They've made biting gestures at me too, standing on the bank. I've also seen/video'd excited males fully engulf the head of a female on the bed.

 

Your bass is most probably excited, anticipating food. Bass can learn, and even anticipate, food. Something anglers should make room for in their fishing lexicon.